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Correct the narrative

This year’s election cycle has brought us some of the most blatant media propaganda to date, email leaks that have detailed how in-bed the American MSM is with the DNC, tens of millions of dollars in spending for pro-Clinton online trolls, and what has to be the most coordinated MSM effort yet to shove a candidate down the public’s throat – all of which is based in fabricating a false narrative and selling it to the public as reality. That is literally the sole purpose of our modern Western media. So, in the light of all that and because it’ll be an easy way to throw new material and talking points out regularly, I present my new post segment… “correct the narrative”. Of course, named after Clinton’s “correct the record” Internet troll team.

For our first and current addition we have the photo of this injured child from Syria with quite an upsetting look on his face.

Here are some top headlines off Google news from the few US media outlets even bothering to cover this kid:

People are SHOCKED! OUTRAGED! What’s going on in Syria to get this kid so dirty?!?!

Seriously? This imperial war (never mind all the others the US is and has been involved in) has been going on for years and people are just now shocked and outraged by it because of a picture of a dirty kid with a slightly red face? Just this week we had our second, NATO bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital and literally not one single fuck was given by anyone I’m connected to on any social media. Is it testament to the tunnel vision created by social media (if it’s not trending on Twatter then social justice warriors don’t care about it)? Is it the success of the propaganda machine that’s succeeded in making Westerners subconsciously think that the only things happening in the world are what’s covered by the MSM? Are people really just this clueless or is it a herd/bandwagon mentality that says, “other people are upset about this so I am too…what’s Syria?” It certainly isn’t a lack of available information about the war in Syria. A simple Google image search for “Syria” gives results that are almost entirely pictures of destruction – a map of Syria even comes second to a picture of a bombed out city. A search for “Syria child” returned limitless results just like these…

And those are just the happy ending pictures because their bodies are all in one piece. If you’re going to be SHOCKED and OUTRAGED, then be shocked and outraged. As a tax payer directly funding this conflict and the Clinton/Obama “regime change” imperialism in Syria, it not only behooves you, but it is your responsibility to see the results of your democratically elected government at work and what they’re doing in YOUR name (then sit and try to wonder why the “terrorists” hate us). Go do that same image search and turn off Google’s “don’t show me stuff that might trigger my sensitive self” filter. It’s your responsibility, because children and innocent adults in not just Syria, but every US sponsored war torn country aren’t just getting dirty and red so they can go sit in an ambulance and look sad. That’s the censored, MSM approved face of the war because it let’s you feel sad so you can pretend like you care, but not so angry that you can’t just forget about it five minutes later. It’s like tossing the homeless guy on the corner a dollar (you generous, big-hearted person you), but then not actually taking any steps to end homelessness. You can get satisfaction feeling your feelly feels for the dirty kid, “I care. It made me sad. I’m a good, empathetic person.” Then go back to sipping your Starbucks while watching the Kardashians, confident in your vote for Hilary because, hey, she’s going to bring more of this… but at least she’s not Trump!

How about instead you go see the real results of imperialist war funded by your tax dollars? Go look at the headless, limbless bodies of the kids that didn’t make it into the ambulance. See the parents carrying their dead kids through the bombed out streets. See the kids flattened by tanks or mangled into unrecognizable piles of meat. You want shock and outrage? Dirty kid is one snowflake on the tip of this war-for-profit iceberg.

So with all that said, let me correct the narrative and give this news story a proper title

“Very, very mild result of American imperialist policy and endless war FINALLY makes it onto the news… clueless Americans in shock.”